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Third World, third world, n. (and a.)
[tr. Fr. tiers monde.]
The countries of the world, esp. those of Africa and Asia, which are aligned with neither the Communist nor the non-Communist bloc; hence, the underdeveloped or poorer countries of the world, usu. those of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Cf. Second World s.v. second a. 7 a. Also attrib. or as adj., and in extended use.
[1956G. Balandier Tiers Monde 369 La conférence tenue à Bandoeng en avril 1955, par les délégués de vingt-neuf nations asiatiques et africaines..manifeste l'accès, au premier plan de la scène politique internationale, de ces peuples qui constituent un ‘Tiers Monde’ entre les deux ‘blocs’, selon l'expression d'A. Sauvy.] 1963Economist 26 Oct. 353/1 Relations between Europe and the third world nowadays. 1964Ibid. 18 Jan. 178/2 The ingredients common to most ‘third world’ countries (poverty, ignorance, love-hate of the former colonial powers). 1967A. A. Mazrui in Jrnl. of Politics XXIX. 792 The concept of the Third World in the sense of the economically underprivileged sector of mankind must include Latin America, as well as the Asian-African countries. But in this paper we use the word, ‘the Third World’ in a more restrictive sense, meaning the world of the new states. 1969Wall St. Jrnl. 15 May 14/2 By ‘Third world’ students Jerry means Orientals, Latins and American Indians. 1970D. Caute Fanon v. 65 The ‘Third World’..means ‘positive neutralism’ and ‘non-alignment’ between the Western and Soviet camps. 1974Globe & Mail (Toronto) 29 Jan. 13/1 The First World Development was Capitalist... The Second World was Communism, in particular Russian Communism. The Third World takes in all the other countries that are not developed. Everyone counts China in the Third World... It includes the whole of Africa, Asia, Latin America. It has to do with income and low standard of living and so this takes in such countries as Greece, Yugoslavia, and some include Spain and Portugal. 1978Poland May 1/2 You will find statements and articles written by Poles, people from other socialist and from capitalist countries as well as from the countries of the Third World. 1978Listener 14 Sept. 322/1 The long ride into town underlines just how Third World, poor and underdeveloped Vietnam still is. 1980Times 6 May 12/8 Andalusia, often described as Spain's ‘third world’, with its high crime rate and unemployment.
Hence Third ˈWorlder, an inhabitant of the Third World; Third ˈWorldism, an ideology or policy of support for the Third World.
1970New Scientist 29 Oct. 227/2 Skills which the average 16-year-old western youth would have little difficulty in mastering apparently pose almost insoluble problems for the average Third Worlder. 1970New Yorker 26 Dec. 46 The revolutionary Third Worldism of large sections of Sweden's politically active youth and intellectuals. 1975New Left Rev. Nov.–Dec. 13 It comes down to little more than a more sophisticated justification of romantic nationalism, now transformed in ‘Third Worldism’. 1978G. Vidal Kalki v. 119 We have a superb military machine second to none, not to mention a standard of living that is the envy of every commie and the despair of every Third Worlder. 1980Encounter Nov. 40/1 Third-Worldism will not continue to be a one-sided problem for the West..but will also..be embarrassing..the East. |